SpaceX LIVE stream: How to watch Live stream on YouTube of Tesla Roadster

SpaceX LIVE stream: How to watch Live stream on YouTube of Tesla Roadster

SPACEX rewrote the history books this week after successfully blasting a Tesla roadster into space on Tuesday with the most powerful rocket in the world, delighting space fans around the globe. Here’s how to watch a live stream on YouTube of the Tesla Roadster.

The Tesla will orbit the planet as part of a long elliptical tour around the Sun, which extends nearly 390 million kilometres (243 million miles) - some 2.61 times the average distance between Earth and the Sun, according to Space.com.

SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk launched his own sports car as the payload, complete with Starman mannequin driver, as part of the Falcon Heavy’s virgin rocket flight.

Thousands cheered as the world’s most powerful rocket surged into space from the NASA Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, just after 3.45pm EST (8.45pm GMT).

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The video is available above. However, a live stream of the Tesla in space has been sadly been glimpsed for the last time.

Elon Musk shared the last photograph of Starman at the wheel of the roadster a few hours ago. His Instagram post said: “Last pic of Starman in Roadster enroute to Mars orbit and then the Asteroid Belt.”

A short battery life meant space lovers could only watch for a few hours before the footage went out.